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When Disease Maks Sense
by Teresa Marciniak
http://www.health-resources.co.uk/newsletters/www.soulwork.net

This article is insoired by a course on Soulwork
Systemic Coaching that I attended in Poland, presented by
Martyn Carruthers. When training, Martyn continually
demonstrates what he teaches, giving many examples and
supervising many exercises, so that we can discover the
value of this work in our own lives. However, Martyn's
written articles may reflect his technical background.
Martyn tends to condense huge amounts of information into
as few words as possible.

In his article "Accelerated Healing", Martyn wrote, "I
interviewed people who had spontaneous remissions from
serious disease, and hypnotically investigated their
healing process. Many times, in many ways, I heard people
say, "The disease became my friend", or "The pain became my
teacher". It seemed that a person could create a disease to
obtain important benefits, and if a disease was fully
accepted and the benefits found in more enjoyable ways, the
disease (symptoms) might spontaneously vanish."

I have used Soulwork and witnessed these "vanishing
symptoms" many times, with physical, mental and emotional
disease symptoms. It is like magic! So let's unpack that
paragraph! I will define Martyn's key points and elaborate
them with my experience:

People can spontaneously heal disease

A disease can become a friendly teacher

A person can create disease to obtain important benefits

Disease benefits can be found in more enjoyable ways

A disease might vanish

1. People can spontaneously heal disease
Some people take medicine without a cure and others take no
medicine and a disease disappears. What is the difference?
Soulwork explores this question in depth!

2. A disease can become a friend or a teacher
When I am sick, I am careful to minimize pain and prolong
periods of feeling good. In this way, pain, and the absence
of pain, strongly guide my behavior. Often a
disease "makes" me do what needs to be done - whether or
not what "needs to be done" is comfortable.

3. A person can create disease to provide important benefits
What can be the benefits of a painful and debilitating
disease?

I carefully observed disease in my friends, my clients and
myself, and find that there are two groups of benefits.
There are benefits for the person, and benefits for the
person's relationships. Each benefit gains something
important - or avoids something that was not wanted.
Here are examples of benefits! When sick, a person:

can have time to rest

can have time with important people

can understand an important person

can understand something important for my development

can start being empathic - when I was so critical of people

can start being careful (when I made an accident)

can start to REALIZE my deep desires

may have time to write a book

A person can also use a disease to AVOID something:

avoid disliked work

avoid meeting people about whom we feel guilt

avoid the exhaustion of hard work

And, some examples of my relationship benefits! When a
person is sick:

Maybe someone will treat that person like a child;

Maybe someone will fulfill that person's responsibilities;

Maybe that person's family will stay together.

Some of these examples may seem manipulative, but if we
investigate them, we can see that a sick person is often
connected with other people in such a way, that the other
people also participate in the sickness. (They may have
their own, often opposite, benefits. For example "She only
accepts my love when she is sick!")

4. Disease benefits can be found in more enjoyable ways
When we recognize the special benefits gained through
disease, we can discover that these special benefits can be
found IN OTHER WAYS! This can be a turning point for
disease! Why suffer, when we see happier ways to fulfill a
wish?

If we know the benefits of a disease, we can discover more
enjoyable ways to accomplish of benefit and can learn to
use this new way in everyday life! What remains to be done?
Accept a disease? For what?

Here is the second turning point for healing. Assume that
some part of us, in the wisest way it could, chose the
disease to provide a benefit. All earlier work without
accepting a disease, it would be like saying, "I enjoy the
benefits, and thanks for them, but the way I get these
benefits is stupid!".

Accepting disease means that we honor ALL our ways to
develop, all our aspects; even those that may seem stupid!
In this moment, our door to Soul is open. A disease can
show us the way! We are ready to integrate!

5. A disease might vanish

Other people have healed disease - why not you? To
Accelerate Healing successfully you can:
Accept your disease - like an expression of accepting
yourself!

Recognize the benefits of your disease

Find supportive, creative, enjoyable ways of reaching these
benefits

Learn how to use these new ways everyday (what kind of
abilities, different emotions, beliefs, things you need?

All this work is done in Soulwork very quickly!)

Make adult decisions about obtaining the benefit (you may
use the disease to remind yourself to enrich this benefit
in the future!)

Sometimes the benefits are not so obvious - a common
example is a disease that confirms your position in a
family tradition (this is often called "genetic disease")!
While you are alive - you have choices! You can sort out
the benefits by yourself, with your friends or with a
trained Soulwork Coach.

If you email me ( [email protected] ), I will read your
letters with pleasure. I also invite you to the Soulwork
courses which we present around the world, and, if you
wish, I can put you in touch with a trained Soulwork Coach.

Blessings to you!
Teresa Marciniak (Soulwork Coach, Warsaw, Poland)

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